Wheel alignment settings for 3.0
- Thread starter PetKiller
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peddy said:
Sounds about right. I've been quoted £90 t0 £120
Bradders75
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I just paid £70 for a 4-wheel alignment (Hunter machine) at the TT Shop in Bedford. Tyres Northampton wanted £100 (using the same machine) and were so insistent, rude and arrogant that I decided to take the car elsewhere, despite it being on the ramp.
Bradders75 said:
More details on the Bedford place please? I've been quoted £100 on the Hunter wheel alignment, just over the road in Milton Keynes.
AlanJ said:PetKiller said:
Subtle but.....
If any non-Z4 owners stumble across here they're going to wonder WTF!Useful thread, I'm taking a print of those settings even though my guy always produces the correct ones from his machine/manuals. That's quite a lot of neg camber on the rear, but not surprised as you can see it just looking at the rear of the car.
The place I use charged me ~£60 last time for a full 4-wheel laser alignment using some sort of Hunter machine. Just a small one-man garage but used by loads of forums: VX220, SIDC, Elise owners. I used him to set up my coilovers too on a previous car and he spent fecking ages doing it - not using book values but using different values after a good long chat with me about how I wanted the car to behave and changing the camber and toe-in/out accordingly.
ProGrip in Bonnybridge (between Glasgow and Stirling) if anyone in the area stumbles across this thread later.
Bradders75
Senior member
no fit state said:
http://www.thettshop.com
Don't worry about them being a TT specialist, they're happy to work on any car. Very professional and friendly service, I was impressed. You can even watch the settings on your car being adjusted on a screen inside the waiting lounge which is great if you're slightly geeky like me!
I'm curious as to just how much is adjustable on a Z4.
I previously had 911s, on which everything (toe, caster, camber, and KPI on the front) were adjustable, and setting them was a real black art, and the settings were used to trim the car's behaviour to a quite marked degree. For example, I could have much of the excessive understeer put in by the factory as a sop to those that bought 911s as a lifestyle accessory removed from my car Of course, getting this done by someone who knew what they were doing was very expensive - between £150 and £200 three years ago. Getting this done by someone who did not know the 911 well could cost almost as much and deliver a truely terrible car.
Now, since I always considered my Z4 to be a sort of e46 in drag, I did not think that this sort of thing was possible.
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I previously had 911s, on which everything (toe, caster, camber, and KPI on the front) were adjustable, and setting them was a real black art, and the settings were used to trim the car's behaviour to a quite marked degree. For example, I could have much of the excessive understeer put in by the factory as a sop to those that bought 911s as a lifestyle accessory removed from my car Of course, getting this done by someone who knew what they were doing was very expensive - between £150 and £200 three years ago. Getting this done by someone who did not know the 911 well could cost almost as much and deliver a truely terrible car.
Now, since I always considered my Z4 to be a sort of e46 in drag, I did not think that this sort of thing was possible.
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